This blog post isn’t about Firefox, the leading* web browser. I really do mean Foxfire.

I was going to open with a really nerdy explanation of bioluminescence, the scientific term for biological organisms (i.e., things that aren’t chemically-altered glowsticks) that glow in the dark. But that doesn’t sound interesting. (But do click through the Wikipedia link to see glow-in-the-dark waves.)

So I’ll cut to the chase. Foxfire is a mushroom that glows in the dark, and is apparently fairly common. What’s weird is that it appears as if it was widely known by people like Benjamin Franklin, but is now entirely unknown to people who don’t read my blog.

* Among my tech-savvy peers, at least.